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Spelling - Compacting (Grades 3-5)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use compacting when learning spelling words. In this spelling lesson, students take a pre-test on their weekly spelling words. Students who score 100% are exempt from spelling and those who miss 0-2 words compact their studying...
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Spelling Lesson Plan: Make a Word Race: Class Teams

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice their spelling words. For this spelling skills lesson, students play a game that requires them to race to the front of the classroom to spell their spelling words before the other team does.
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Step and Spell

For Teachers K - 5th
Practice spelling words and reinforce the use of the QWERTY keyboard with this lesson. Learners create large alphabet cards and arrange them on the floor in the same way that the keyboard is set up. They step on letters to spell...
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Spelling with /ou/ Sound

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize spelling words with ou and ow sounds. In this spelling lesson, 4th graders begin with ground and town and build lists of words with similar spelling. Students complete a worksheet with antonyms and synonyms for...
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Finding Rhyming Words in a French Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore rhyming in this phonemic awareness and French lesson plan. Listen to the poem "J'Adore la Pizza" by Karen Kransky and identify rhyming words. Compare grapheme spelling patterns with like phonemes, and sort word cards according to...
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It's Greek To Me!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In this language lesson, scholars use Greek root meanings to determine the meaning of words. After being shown how Greek roots are used in many words, such as, photosynthesis, pairs are given two excellent black line masters...
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Spelling Free Throw (Elementary, Games)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students run to the chalk board to spell a given word, pick up a basketball, dribble to the hoop and make one shot, run the basketball back to their starting place to score points for their team.
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Are You a Super Sign Speler or Speller?

For Teachers K - 6th
Why is spelling important? Develop your class' spelling skills. They examine examples of homonyms, heteronyms, and creative spelling. They also photograph misspellings in the real world in order to discover the importance of spelling...
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Shaving Cream Spelling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a spelling activity. In this spelling lesson plan, students use shaving cream to write their spelling words. Students correct any mistakes.
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Spelling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students find a strategy to help them remember spelling words.  In this spelling lesson, students use memory, mnemonic devices, singing and body spelling to remember words.
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Playing Vocabulary Basketball

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners view a slide show featuring famous athletes and educational institutions that have played a part in the history of basketball. They participate in a game in which a basketball is tossed from person to person as facts and...
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Frindle Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
"Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle?" Inspired by this quote from the award-winning novel written by Andrew Celements, this lesson allows children to invent their own...
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Spelling Unit- School Theme

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this school themed spelling unit, students study 12 more difficult words relating to school . Students complete a variety of activities with these words: dictionary work, definitions, scrambled words, and a word hunt.
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Six Ways To Recall Spelling Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice their weekly spelling words. Using six methods of recall, students practice spelling their words orally and using pen and paper. They demonstrate their recall of the spelling words by completing a spelling test at the...
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Word Search Puzzle: April

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this April puzzle worksheet, learners locate and circle/highlight sixteen words in a word search puzzle that are associated with the month of April.
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Word Games

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Want to build your class' vocabulary through a fun learning game? In this activity learners explore new words and their meanings and usages using Word Attack 3 computer software. They unscramble words, develop vocabulary words, navigate...
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Spelling Takes a Hit!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice spelling and word recognition. In this spelling lesson plan, students play a game. . Students are given a word to spell and as they call out each letter, they swat the letter with a fly swatter allowing each student to...
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Musical Mystery Words

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study the letter names for the treble clef and create words using the letters that represent the lines and spaces on the staff.
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It's Greek to Me!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Use Greek roots, suffixes, and prefixes to create polysyllabic words. Readers use the dictionary to identify what the word's prefix, suffix, and root or base word mean. They define what a syllable is and how one is formed using Greek...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Dandelion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore vocabulary while reading Dandelion Learners record their learning using a word journal or discovery chart, and the whole class reviews the meaning of each word using examples.
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Vocabulary Instructional Routine: Synonyms

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Young scholars work with word cards to define and identify synonyms, antonyms, and homophones. Participants listen to instruction, read word cards, discuss their new-found knowledge, and put it into action by creating sentences and...
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Categories Game: Ten Words

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, in groups, create lists of vocabulary words related to a particular subject. They are given points for each correctly spelled word that matches a list written by the teacher.
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Memory Master

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Practice spelling words that use prefixes, suffixes, and specific roots. In this grammar lesson plan, learners play a game where they compete with spelling words correctly to gain points. A short set of review questions are also...
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Thai Children's Trust

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students spell words in braille and learn how to use braille to punch out their names. For this braille lesson plan, students discuss what life would be like for a visually impaired person.

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